Louis Francois Coutard

Louis Francois Coutard (19 February 1769-22 March 1852) was a French general and politician.

Biography
Louis Francois Coutard was born in Ballon, Sarthe department, France on 19 February 1769, and he joined the French Revolutionary Army in 1791 and served in the War in the Vendee. Coutard later served in the Italian Campaign and served in Poland in 1808, Germany in 1809, Spain in 1810-1811, in Russia in 1812, and in Spain in 1813. Following the Bourbon Restoration, he became a general of the French Royal Army and a Gentilhomme de la Chambre in the Chamber of Peers alongside Generals Jean Rapp and Julien Augustin Joseph Mermet. From 1822 to 1830, he served as Military Governor of Paris, and he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1827 to 1830 as the deputy for Mamers. He resigned following the 1830 July Revolution, and he died in 1852.